Simply as brave, big heart, fearless. This young woman was studying to be a doctor when the boarded a bus in deli last december. For hours, she was brutally gang raped, then tossed away with her friend left naked and bleeding alongside of the road and left to die, but she kept fighting. Over the next two weeks, she became aware of the growing movement that was supporting her and the outrage and indigitation ignited around the world, as she fought for her life, she decided to fight for justice, too. She defied her doctors and the culture of silence giving two detailed accounts of her attack that the police used to arrest her rapists. Her bravery inspired millions of women and men to come together with a simple message, no more. No more looking the other way when genderbased violence happens. No more stigma against victims or survivors, her fight survives her, for inspiring people to Work Together to end violence against women in india around the world by displaying courage and demanding justice as this inscription reads and the Great Sadness we honor nirbhaya as a woman of courage and honor posthumously. Please stand and join me if you would for moment of silence for nirbhaya. Thank you very much. It is my honor to read part of a statement from nirbhayas mother and father. This is what they wrote. We never imagined that the girl we thought was our daughter would one day be the daughter of the entire world. She was meant to be the daughter of the world, this is a huge achievement in itself. She was always different from other children, other children cry when being sent to school. She was an extraordinary child who would cry when she was not going to school. She was happy girl and even in times of struggle she would stay cheerful. We gave equal treatment to all three children. There was no discrimination for her being a girl. My daughter was made of steel. Once she decided she had to do something, there was no look back. She would work at call centers during nights and study during the day. She would never get enough time to sleep, just about two hours at the most. And despite the odds and our poverty, she always managed to achieve and move ahead. She had just one goal in life, to study and become a doctor. Today our message to the world is do not tolerate any attack on your dignity and honor, do not silently bear ill treatment. Other women would keep silent and hideaway when they were subjected to sexual misconduct. They would not report it to the police or lodge any complaints. They were scared of the stigma. That has changed, the fear is now gone, and while her end was horrendous, her case is impacter strength to all women to fight and to improve the system. Women both in india and the rest of the world refused to be stigmatized and will not keep silent anymore. This incident has opened their minds and empowered them. 16 they are no longer scared of what anyone will say. I would like to invite fartuun adan to speak on behalf of all of those we have honored here today. [applause] thank you very much. I have a speech but i dont think i can read it. I am not going to read it. I am too nervous sitting beside michelle. [laughter] i would never expect this when working in somalia. I never thought someone is going to see the work you are doing in somalia, but that is what happened and i really appreciate it. First lady, i honestly do not know what to say. Thank you. Also, i would like to talk about on behalf of the women, these really shall really fabulous women, and the work we do. It doesnt matter where we live, it is always the same. As a woman, we share one work, we are always quiet. We dont talk. We dont say anything. We just listen whenever someone tells us. I am a mom. I have three girls. I have to be a role model. Not only to them but to all young girls. Not only somalia, but all over the place. We need to speak out. We need to be involved. We need to be a part of this change. I mean decision making. We have in somalia, women who are fighting. We have a government that is strong. Were fight. All these women who are doing amazing job in somalia. They never get encouraged when it comes to the decision making. When it come those decision make, when it comes to anything in their life. Someone has to make a decision for them. That is not right. That is where we stand today. I am so happy, i am nervous, i am so happy to be here, and yesterday when i saw the president obama signing this, it was for me. I knew and i know we can change. It does not matter where we live, we are all sisters. We need support to and intimidation and become leaders, to change, and we have a lot of work to do. Education, basic life. You are talking about the human rights of basic license amalia. We dont have that. We want to keep fighting. One day we will change. Thank you very much having me here. Im sorry i did not bring my speech. [laughter] [applause] thank you for your remarks on behalf of all of the women here and all of the women everywhere. I have to tell you, i have been in mogadishu and met with your president. And talked about the role that women are playing in your country and i have no doubt that with leaders like you, there will be a bright and great future for your children and for their children. I thank you and all of you for everything you do every single day. [applause] i am sure, like all of you in the audience, i am truly humbled by these women. On behalf of mrs. Obama, secretary kerry and the International Women of courage, thank you for joining us today. It is really all of our privilege to be feared. At this time, i kindly ask you to remain seated for a moment while we take it brief photo and allow our to exit the stage. I would invite you to join us in the Reception Room upstairs. Thank you, if you stay seated for one moment, we will do this quickly. Thank you so very much. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] one of the things that an early american wife was taught to do, she supported her husbands career. Usually through entertaining. Dolly was both socially adept and politically savvy. She could structure her entertainments in such a way that which she could lobby for her husband under the guise of entertaining. She also thought it was very important to create a setting in the white house, almost like a stage, for the performance of her husband in the conduct of politics and diplomacy. First lady dolly madison. We will follow her journey from a young quaker widow into the woman that history remembers. The wife of the fourth u. S. President , james madison. We include your phone calls, Facebook Comments and tweets, on cspan, cspan3 and cspan radio and cspan. Org. According to the associated press, the Obama Administration revoked its current reward [no audio] let us join hands and our heads in prayer. Keep your seats. I want to thank the family for allowing us to share a prayer on this occasion. Today we are here not because hugo chavez has died but because he lived. Death is certain. Life is uncertain. Thus, a life of service matters. We pray to god today that the soul of the hugo chavez will find peace, and acceptance for his service in the kingdom. Grant him mercy and grace. The chavez family mourns today. Comfort them. Venezuela cries today. Reassure them venezuela is not left alone. For madura, grant him wisdom and support as he keeps hopes and dreams alive, as he picks up the baton and makes a great nation greater. We pray, god, today that you will heal the breach between the u. S. And venezuela. Yea, thou we walk through valleys and shadows of death, we fear no evil. For thou art with us. Let us forgive, redeem, and move on to higher ground. We are neighbors. We share the same hemisphere. We play ball together. Wed trade resources together. We fight drugs together. We shared dreams together. We are bound by culture and environment. Even the death of this leader, nor any death will separate us from your love, dear god. Neither heights nor depths shall separate us. Now, jesus, remove our doubts and fears. Try our eyes. Drive our eyes. Today, a great nation mourns. How we measure a great leader is by how he treats the least of these. Hugo fed the hungry. He lifted the poor. He raised their hopes. He help them realize their dreams. And so today we do mourn, because we have lost a lot. But we have a lot left. A stable government, an orderly transition. We pray that the president s of our great nations will meet soon and find common ground. While it may be politically difficult, it is the morally right thing to do. Nothing is too hard for god. And so let us rise. We fall down sometimes by our own errors. We fall down sometimes because of our fears. But we get up again because the ground is no place for a champion. The ground is no place for a champion. The ground is no place for champions. Let there be peace between nations. Amen. [applause] [audience chanting] as we begin the ceremony, we would like to thank the president s at the ceremony, the Prime Minister of trinidad tobago, the Prime Minister of curacao, the premier of the republic of turkey, the vice minister of the republic of viet nam. We would also like to convey greetings to all of the delegations and thank them for being present at this very solemn and important moment for our republic. We also would like to convey greetings to the peoples republic of algeria, the delegation from the russian federation, the delegation from the republic of argentina, the delegation from brazil, the delegation from the republic of gambia, the delegation from grenada, the delegation from the palestinian state, the delegation from the democratic socialist republic of sri lanka, the delegation from the republic of portugal, the delegation from the peoples republic of china, the delegation from france, the delegation from the republic of lebanon, the delegation from the democratic republic of sri lanka, from canada, from the republic of angola, from the republic of greece, finland, the ukraine, from the republic of croatia, from the kingdom of jordan, from the commonwealth of australia, from the kingdom of denmark, the delegation from the republic of serbia, and from the democratic republic of korea. Korea and the republic of south korea, republic of slovenia, the u. S. Delegation. We also would like to express our appreciation for having international, guilty lateral organizations that are present today to accompany Us Multinational organizations that are present to day to accompany us as we mourn the death of president chavez. The o. A. S. , the iberoamerican summit, aladi, una sur. C. A. F. , eclac, fal, unicef, and the u. N. D. P. We would also like to a traversed our sincere appreciation for all of the dear friends of commander hugo chavez who came here to bid a final farewell including mr. Shawn. Mr. Sean penn. [applause] we will now hear some words from nicolas maduro, Vice President of the republic of venezuela. [applause] dear children, grandchildren, brothers, family members of our commander, president , father, and guide, she goh rafael chavez, hugo rafael chavez, heads of state, Prime Ministers, princes, from all four corners of the globe who have come here to express with their love and their presence, their full support and solidarity to the glorious people of venezuela, to our commander, hugo chavez. We would like to thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for having come here from your own countries to render this tribute and to reflect on your words of encouragement and comfort that we need so much during this tragic moment in the 21st century. Dear and esteemed leaders who are here representing social movements, political and social leaders who are there on the streets with the people, who have brought music to our children, to our young people, to breathe fresh air into the soul, our dear esteemed colleagues and friends from the government of president hugo chavez, our esteemed colleagues in government, here we are seeing him in a way that we hoped we would never have to see him. When that immense pain that is so overwhelming, as faced by mankind, and here we are, commander. Yesterday, someone told us that, and when we heard these words, we really felt this moment in its full context, and shed try to encourage us, she said, remain strong because his soul, his spirit was so strong that his own body could no longer withstand it, and now he is free and his spirit is in the universe expanding and filling us with blessings and love, bringing together all of those blessings of all of the religions, of all societies, all the love that exists in this universe, to bring us together. And we know this is the way that we feel, commander. And in our prayers, people say that it is time to forgive. And you taught us, you taught us about that infinite love that you need to have in order to forgive during the most trying of times. No leader in the history of our country has been so maligned, so vilified, and so violent attack than our own commander, our president , never in 200 years have so many lies been told about a man, not neither here nor anywhere else in the world. Even boulevard, who was of course betrayed, but they never dared to vilify him during his time and even after his time. But they could not do it. The allies and the hatred could not do it, because here he is allies and the hatred could not do it, because here he is, our commander. Why couldnt they do it . You know why, dear and a steam esteemed heads of state who have brought your pure love and shown that to this man beyond ideologies and political frontiers, because our commander emanated this from within. He had the strongest shield at any human being could have, and that was his purity, the truth, his shield of purity, the love of christ, a true son of christ that saved him from disgrace and infamy. And here we see him undefeated, transparent, pure, alive, throughout time, for this and all future periods of time they could not match you youll never be defeated [applause] [audience chanting] we in our lives were loyal to him. All of us. All of the great men in venezuela. And we learned that because he taught this to us. We did not know that. Many of us, from time we were children, we joined the revolutionary ranks and would go through different paths. Some of you in the military, and here we have the generation, the generation of the children of the military. I ask that you please rise. Here are your children, commander. Here is the national olivary an army who are here with their swords, with their weapons, an army of peace, armed forces, freedom fighters. [applause] and from the time we were very young, from the age of 11 or 12, some of our homes, with our parents, we never in the path to redeeming our nation never did we ever know about our history. We never knew that if you truly want to build the legacy left by hugo chavez, the first thing you need to do is recognize that he helped us rediscover our own countrys history. He raised the banners of the liberators, simon boulevard, and at the same time he embodied the spirit and he taught us to love and also for gifts. And also for give. He also taught us to love our history. And that is why today we say, from the bottom of our hearts, and i asked your mother and your daughters, commander, i ask that i will just say that as an undefeated person, we will continue to forgive those who vilify him and maligned him and all of the blame that people try to throw on you. And in that history, all of our leaders, starting with our greatest leaders, simon boulevard, was not allowed to come into the united provinces, of venezuela. Marshall was threatened if he came back into the provinces of greater columbia, our colombia that is still thriving with the desire to be refounded. They all died. In exile because they were betrayed. Some betrayed simon bolivar, who died in santa marta. We sat down to extend the hand to Work Together, together, and that is how it began, president santos, thank you very much. Thank you. [applause] the marshal, his body was left on the ground, and the poor picked up his body and they took his body. He spent 70 years lost. He had this great bolivarian general to bring him from his ostracized status and taken to the cathedral, and with our brothers, with the bolivarian republic of ecuador. Why did it have to be this way . Why was the final hour this way . Why is it that the great leaders who founded this country, who walked from the caribbean, shoeless, why was there so much treason . Why was there so much selfishness and what it does . Why was there so much selfishness and wickedness . Because the self interested in the way. They were not the supreme interests of the people. There were times of chaos and confusion, and bolivar was not able to consolidate those lands they liberated. And other great leaders, the general of the sovereign nation, the redeemer raise the banners, betrayed. And he also died of a gunshot wound on january 10, 1860. When the victorious troops arrived in caracas. This was all talk to us by our teacher and our father. At that time, oil had already been discovered in venezuela, and a nationalist leader, who was ill, came out and 1908 and his ship had just barely sailed with the trail of the Vice President took place, and we had a 30year dictatorship, the worst dictatorship we have seen in the 20thcentury. And the country was looted of its oil. Venezuela was the no. 1 producer of oil in the 1920s. And our country was looted. So, commander, once you told us that in the president ial play you read this account to commander fidel castro, commander and chief of the liberating forces of latin america and caribbean, and commander fidel castro, after having heard shoot very attentively after he heard you and very attentively told you, hugo, what a sad account. I did not know that. But you can rest assured that neither you nor i will die that way. When we must depart, we will depart with our people, marching in victory, with the blessing and the love of the righteous and the just. Fidel castros words became reality. Here you are, commander, with your people standing, all of your men and women lack oil as we swore we would be to reject all of your men and women loyal as we swore we would be to you, and you, of president , as head of the bolivarian republic of venezuela, commander of your armed forces, in your land, in your country, under your command, your sole command. We have broken with the curse of the trail against our country, and we will continue to break the curse of defeat. [applause] we have broken that curse. Here we have the sword, pulled out of its sheath, and we have his eyes looking to christ. The last few days, just a few hours before the announcements were made on december 8, some colleagues went to see him, and other colleagues from the struggle, the struggles from the past and also the struggles that are to come. A pure revolutionary, the children of our commander, hugo chavez, and our colleague rafael, they always accompanied him, rosa, maria, all of his brothers. Our comrade jorge, dear friend rosa, and during a very trying morning, i went there to his room. We were together, jorge and i. Jorge has constantly been riding in his notebook been writing in his notebook, and commander asked that we would help them to undertake a task. And he told us i think i am on to have to write a few final words of my testament. And he gave us an order. The last will and testament of hugo chavez. He said, help me with some ideas so i can sit down and prepare this. We never carried out that order. We could not do it. It was impossible. That order had already been carried out, because the life of our commander has been a legacy, his passion, his words, his actions, his efforts, his people. The people of venezuela are his legacy, the port and the humble of this world. Those in despair, those oppressed people from time immemorial, those of us, the grandchildren of the slaves, we are his living legacy. He left his legacy, signed and sealed by the people. And the first one is this. If anybody would like to know something about hugo chavez, truly know about hugo chavez and do away with any misconceptions or lies and read the words written by him, the constitution formally approved by the people, debated by the people, and learn about his words and actions. What we are today is embodied here. This is our guide. If anybody has any questions or doubts, these are the words, the supreme text of the nation, the text of peace. When this constitution was debated, we went out to the streets to debate and there was a referendum held. Some venezuelans came out to vote no, to not approve this constitution. Well, as we have seen in 1999, commander chavez, as we were involved in the constitutional process, he said, be patient. What is just is just, and this text will be recognized by everyone. And today, commander, we assert this is the constitution of everyone, even those who oppose us take it as belonging to them as well. This is our guide, the died of unity, of peace, peaceful coexistence. This is the charter for carrying out a democratic revolution. And if you want to know more about what our undefeated commander thought and dreamed about, as raul castro said yesterday, and defeated, if you want to know the thoughts of and what he thought 21st century venezuela should look like, this is the legacy that he left, that he wrote in june 2012. And the executive Vice President , who worked directly with commander chavez, and he left with us five Historic Tasks. Five Historic Tasks. That reflect the thoughts, the set of values and principles inspired on the ideas of simon bolivar, our founding father, inspired by the wisdom of our liberators and indigenous communities, inspired by christ. If anyone would like to ask, how is a human being when he is the true son of christ, our redeemer, and it devotes his life, his soul and spirit for a society, for a people, for the oppressed, then we have to recognize that you could chavez was an authentic christian, a man of the streets, of the people, a redeemer with christ, a protector with christ of the poor, in this country and every country around the world. So there are five Historic Tasks that are completely consistent and democratic. Because after a democratic discussion, this country of men and women who are free and conscious of their rights, the commander approved this legacy. He never lied in politics, in anything. When he discovered his own path and realized that neil liberal capitalism, it was impossible to stabilize a society, to provide equality and happiness to society and that it was impossible to maintain a truly democratic nation, he said in december 2004, i am going to raise the banner of our socialism, not the indigenous bolivarian, interamerican socialism, we will build that dream of democracy, of socialism, and here he has left that system, that legacy of five main principles. First of all to maintain and consolidate the independents gained over the last 14 years of the Peoples Democratic revolution and the bolivarian revolution. At secondly, to build our socialism, which is the verse, democratic, hemispheric and intraamerican. And the third task is to build a venezuela as a power within the context of the power of latin america that will continue to be built over the next few years. And we see this reflected today with the wide diversity of heads of states that have come to this event, and we need to be one single power. It was here that various president s and heads of states have sat, here with chavez, as a cadet was trained, where 30, 40 years later that cadet would become the president and who would found at the community of latin american and caribbean states, and we now know the president of chile has taken other responsibilities. We want to thank you very much for your words. And we also would like to thank raul castro, who is heading this organization. And our fourth task is to build a balanced world, and balanced universe, without empires. Here we see representatives that we express our greetings to, and we truly appreciate. We have Jesse Jackson and gregory smith, who were sent by president obama. Welcome. We want and admire all of the peoples of the americas, but we want a relationship of true cooperation, respect, on an equal footing. And as commander chavez said, we want a World Without empires, hegemonic nations, a world that respects international law, a world that is capable of coming together to cooperate, to peacefully coexist and be just, on an equal footing. Why is this not possible . Here we have the entire will of the world, the Political Force of a world, and latin america has taken on the Historic Task of creating a new world, to join together in our diversity and say to the rest of the world, this is the latin america of the liberators. Were standing together. This world must change. Commander, a fifth objective that i am going to read, because without this, it would be impossible to ensure the existence of mankind. And this fifth objective, ultimately, is the one that gives consistency to this legacy left to us by commander hugo job chavez. The fifth objective is very straightforward and we say this humbly and with our concern for mankind. Commander hugo tshamba says as his fifth Historic Task, to contribute to the preservation of human life and the salvation and the preservation of the human species. No capitalism or socialism or any one of our religions is going to continue to survive if we are not able, with dark ideological, political, religious beliefs, to save our planet. We have to put an end to nuclear weapons, put an end to those forces of destruction of pollution of our rivers and seas and global warming. Here is, commander. Your legacy. Several years ago, our president , when there were some very pressing moments, or we would make a mistake, he would always tell us, nicolas, nicolas, rafael, jorge, what are you going to do when i die . And we always said, please dont say that, commander. What are you going to do when i die . How are you going to take care of things . He left it all taken care of. Now it is up to us to take on the challenge or not. We call on our people to take on the challenge. What are we going to do when you depart, commander . You can now rest in peace. Our prayers and our love of christ and our hearts wish you peace, in life and now in death. What are we going to do . We will continue to Work Together as a people, the armed forces with our constitution, with your political legacy, with your example, and through our love. We will continue to protect the poor. We will continue to feed those who are hungry. It will continue to build on the education of our children, continued to build our great nation, continue to build peace, peace, and the peace of our continent, the piece of our people. Commander, Mission Accomplished president , commander, the battle continues chavez lives the struggle continues long live hugo chavez long live our people long live unity and love commander, we will continue to triumph, and one word to victory. Today on cspan, oak washington journal. Followed by president obama and president netanyahu. 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